Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have received notice from Senator Martin Conway that, on the motion for the Commencement of the House today, he proposes to raise the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Health to outline his plans to reduce the number of people on trolleys at the accident and emergency department, University Hospital Limerick.

I have also received notice from Senator Fintan Warfield of the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Health to outline his plans to commence sections 2 and 3 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015.

I have also received notice from Tim Lombard of the following matter:

The need for the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills to implement a protocol to ensure students repeating their leaving certificate have access to bus passes through the school transport system.

I have also received notice from Senator Victor Boyhan of the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider whether local authority expenditure and income should be scrutinised by the Committee of Public Accounts.

I have also received notice from Senator John O'Mahony of the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the allocation for road maintenance on national and regional roads in 2018.

I have also received notice from Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill of the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the steps his Department is taking both at a European Union and international level to highlight and address the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and the ongoing current malign and destabilising activities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

I have also received notice from Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh of the following matter:

The need for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to outline the progress being made to update the foreshore licensing of seaweed harvesting in Ireland.

I regard the matters raised by the Senators as suitable for discussion. I have selected Senators Conway, Warfield, Lombard and Boyhan and they will be taken now. The other Senators may give notice on another day of the matters that they wish to raise.